Composition Assistance – Topic Gun Control

Assignment 2: Your Research Paper’s Annotated Bibliography
Revisit the topic that you listed in your research proposal from Module 1, and do some research. If you have some trouble, you may need to narrow it a bit to find appropriate academic source material. Your selected topic will be the topic for your final paper in this class.
For this assignment, you need to complete an annotated bibliography of the sources you are finding for your research paper. As you continue to work on your project, add to your list, so that when you are ready for your final draft you can remove the unused citations and all annotations. After these things are removed, and your page is re-titled “References,” it will be ready to submit as part of the final paper. Here are the things you should look for in a good annotated bibliography:
You use at least three university-level resources that are authoritative, correct, unbiased, current, and coherent.
Your title is “References,” not “Bibliography.” Your authors are listed in alphabetical order, and there is a short explanation after every citation.
Your citations are APA formatted (with hanging indent) and each needed block of annotation text is in the appropriate order.
The work is formatted in 12 point, Times New Roman font, with one inch margins all around.
You offer a description of the source’s usefulness: statistics, clever quote, graph, table, fact, or other relevant information. If a source is not useful, you note that it is not going to be used in your paper.

Due Week 8 and worth 80 points

For this assignment, you are acting as the owner of your very own accounting practice. You are employed to assist Dominic Leonardo (owner of Dominic Consulting) in setting up QuickBooks for his company and his free Intuit Accountant File Transfer account. At month end, you received a .QBX file from Dominic Consulting containing all of the organizations accounting work for the month of January. Dominic is not clear on the purpose and security of the Accountant File Transfer account and needs your assistance.

Your service is to review the books of Dominic Consulting and advise Dominic of any corrections needed. Using your accounting knowledge you will describe an important outcome of the company’s performance shown in three statements: the Profit & Loss Statement, the Balance Sheet, and the Statement of Cash Flows.

Dominic Consulting is using the Ask My Accountant feature of QuickBooks which has led to a specific question. Dominic is unsure of how to record a retainer fee of $2,400 from a new customer, TakoSami. As it stands, Dominic Consulting plans to provide consulting services over the next three (3) months. He has not performed any work for TakoSami and expects the work to be done evenly over the three (3) months.

Dominic Consulting wants to know if the following entry is correct:
Cash 2400
Sales 2400
Hints: Accountants Copy is discussed on page 12.29, Ask My Accountant is discussed on page 12.31, .QBX files are defined in Section 4: QuickBooks Extras are in Section B, page B.2. Use these resources and other QB online sources for additional details.

Write a two to three (2-3) page business letter to Dominic Consulting in which you:
Explain the interface provided by the Accountant Copy File Transfer, including the integration of your work into DCs accounting files.
Explain the proper accounting for the TakoSami transaction and the effects / consequences of improperly recording this transaction.
Explain the key highlights you identified in the three (3) statements, using your accounting knowledge.
Identify the errors that you found in your review and suggest a resolution.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Generate financial reports for most small- to medium-sized businesses with QuickBooks.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in microcomputer applications for accountants.
Write clearly and concisely about microcomputer applications for accountants using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 80 Assignment 1: QuickBooks Interface with Client
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Explain the interface provided by the Accountant Copy File Transfer, including the integration of your work into DC’s accounting files.
Weight: 20% Did not submit or incompletelyexplained the interface provided by the Accountant Copy File Transfer, including the integration of your work into DC’s accounting files. Insufficiently explained the interface provided by the Accountant Copy File Transfer, including the integration of your work into DC’s accounting files. Partially explained the interface provided by the Accountant Copy File Transfer, including the integration of your work into DC’s accounting files. Satisfactorily explained the interface provided by the Accountant Copy File Transfer, including the integration of your work into DC’s accounting files. Thoroughly explained the interface provided by the Accountant Copy File Transfer, including the integration of your work into DC’s accounting files.
2. Explain the proper accounting for the TakoSami transaction and the effects / consequences of improperly recording this transaction.
Weight: 20% Did not submit or incompletelyexplained the proper accounting for the TakoSami transaction and the effects / consequences of improperly recording this transaction. Insufficiently explained the proper accounting for the TakoSami transaction and the effects / consequences of improperly recording this transaction. Partially explained the proper accounting for the TakoSami transaction and the effects / consequences of improperly recording this transaction. Satisfactorily explained the proper accounting for the TakoSami transaction and the effects / consequences of improperly recording this transaction. Thoroughly explained the proper accounting for the TakoSami transaction and the effects / consequences of improperly recording this transaction.
3. Explain the key highlights you identified in the three (3) statements, using your accounting knowledge.
Weight: 20% Did not submit or incompletelyexplained the key highlights you identified in the three (3) statements, using your accounting knowledge. Insufficiently explained the key highlights you identified in the three (3) statements, using your accounting knowledge. Partially explained the key highlights you identified in the three (3) statements, using your accounting knowledge. Satisfactorily explained the key highlights you identified in the three (3) statements, using your accounting knowledge. Thoroughly explained the key highlights you identified in the three (3) statements, using your accounting knowledge.
4. Identify the errors that you found in your review and suggest a resolution.
Weight: 20% Did not submit or incompletelyidentified the errors that you found in your review and did not submit or incompletelysuggested a resolution. Insufficiently identified the errors that you found in your review and insufficiently suggested a resolution. Partially identified the errors that you found in your review and partially suggested a resolution. Satisfactorily identified the errors that you found in your review and satisfactorily suggested a resolution. Thoroughly identified the errors that you found in your review and thoroughly suggested a resolution.
5. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 20% More than 8 errors present 7-8 errors present 5-6 errors present 3-4 errors present 0-2 errors present

Essay topics – choose from among these topics for an analytical essay.

Option A: Plato’s Theory of Forms Option

Option B: Aristotle’s Conception of Ethics

C: If you have a special interest in a particular topic, discuss it with me, it should be ok. Address the major concepts.

Write a minimum of 500 words. Let me know if you’d like me to look over a draft.

General concept; The goal of the essay is to engage the selected topic in a conversation. Like any conversation, the essay needs a reason to begin (question,problem or issue).  This should be something that has drawn you to the topic and will draw the reader in.

These essays should be a struggle with prejudice, a movement from surface thinking to depth.  You begin at the surface and end in depth.

1. Intro =Show the reader, which you should assume is not me, why there is somethingimportant to resolve.  Perhaps begin the essay as you would begin a short mystery.

Thesis = question, problem or issue.  This does not mean asking a lot of questions.  It means posing a thoughtful problem.

1. Analysis = Identifying two sides of the issue, question or problem. This is an absolute necessity. Analysis is not an answer, remain open.  Allow your thesis to move you and the reader through an organized exploration of the topics, concepts or authors. Know what is at stake, not where you are going to end up. Demonstrate you have given the positions a fair read/ chance.

Use quotes wisely look closely at specific words and meaning. Don’t jump from point to point. This is a specific danger in compare-and-contrast essays.

III.  Conclusion = Only come to a conclusion after a fair analysis. Tie the strands of analysis you have been pursuing together. Don’t summarize or repeat previous analysis. Propose an answer.

Avoid 1) Filler.

2) Broad generalizations.

3) Sweeping statements about ideas and theorists.

4) Finishing before you begin (allow the conversation to flow).  Essay should be a

thoughtful confrontation or dialogue, not a defense of your prejudice.

5) Compare-and-contrast cliché; this cannot be the engine of an essay. If this is the

way your essay reads there is a void as its core.  Find an issue of interest that is

at stake and caught between the two concepts, theories or authors.

Review the Language Acquisition in Early Childhood Education interactive game, which focuses on language developmental stages and cognitive processes.  Write three questions you can ask your classmates that would help to evaluate their knowledge of the developmental milestones and brain development stages, and how they influence on language development and acquisition.  These questions should be focused on the main concepts in Chapters 5 and 6.  You can see several examples of types of questions in the interactive Jeopardy game.  The solutions to your questions should be able to be located within Chapters 5 or 6 in the course textbook.  Post your three questions, but do not include the solutions to these in your original post.

We have learned in Chapters 5 and 6 that we are able to understand children’s language development stages by observing their processes and interactions. Preview the three videos listed below from Chapter 6 of your text, which are focused on children’s language interactions. The children shown are in various stages of language development.   Choose one of the three videos to conduct an observation and identify the child’s language development stage.

• Precursors to Language, retrieved from Section 6.1 of your text.
• Babbling, retrieved from Section 6.2 of your text.
• Assessing Cognitive and Language Development, retrieved from the Conclusion section in Chapter 6 of your text.

Write your observations of the child, which should support your conclusion of developmental stage. Support your responses with the evidence from the textbook.

The subject line of your discussion should be the title of the video that you watched. Be sure to include a minimum of a 250-word response using your observations and a minimum of one source to support your claims. Your reference(s) should appear at the end of your discussion and be formatted according to APA.

There are many specific communication disorders explained in Chapter 8, all of which fall under either Speech Disorder or Language Disorder.

Choose one of the many communication disorders from the chapter and explain the main components of this disorder under the correct broad heading: Speech Disorder or Language Disorder.  Prepare a fact sheet that includes the following:

• Disorder name and summary of the main characteristics
• Explanation of what children go through
• Strategies to help support children in the classroom
• Idea or best practice for supporting families,
• Include a resource that you could share with families that explains more about the disorder.

Your original response should be a minimum of 300 words and include support from the textbook and one outside source that you could share with families.  Be sure to include a reference at the end of your fact sheet in APA format.

Plan to spend about 30 minutes to an hour in a preschool setting.  A good time to observe would be during circle time, independent learning time, or during free choice time.  If this is not an option, please view the video, Five Basic Functions of Language, found in Chapter 7 of your text.

Describe the interactions and the language experiences that are taking place in the social setting.  Refer to Chapter 7 for various examples of ways this can be seen in the classroom.  Record your observations in a professional manner, maintaining the confidentiality of the site and the teachers’ and students’ real names.  Use your observations to write an analysis of the language experiences that were observed.

In your discussion post, be sure to include your actual observation notes as well as a 150- to 250-word analysis that is supported by reference(s) to the textbook.

For your analysis, discuss:

• What experiences support language acquisition?
• What experiences/interactions need refinement?

You will rely on the information you have gained thus far, as well as your insights, to evaluate the above questions.  Be sure to format all in-text citations and reference(s) in APA style.

Language Rich Environment

All children learn language in a language-rich environment.  In thinking about what you have learned about language so far, how will you design the physical space of your classroom to allow for language opportunities?  You will need to think about the type of communication and interactions that you would like to see take place throughout your classroom.

For example, you might place drawing paper and clipboards in the block area to help foster communication so that children can draw their block creations on paper and share them with other children.  Having a large open space in the block area invites cooperation so children can verbally communicate and work together on large building structures.  You also might have the block shelf labeled for children to be able to see and provide books of shapes and building for children to explore.

For this assignment, you will create a floor plan of your classroom that fosters language development. Your classroom design should have a minimum of three physical areas of the classroom detailed including an explanation of how the design supports language acquisition.  You can use web resources such as Classroom Architect or Gliffy to design your classrooms or you may use Microsoft Word to draw your design using shapes and the textbox feature.  If you choose to use Classroom Architect or Gliffy, you will need to download your design as a PDF file or JPG file and insert the image into a Word document before uploading your final assignment.

For each area (minimum of three) that you define in your classroom floor plan, you must include the following:

1. Explain how the area is set up
2. Explain how specifically the area supports language development
3. Describe the activity or experience that the children can specifically be engaged in
4. Explain what the role of the teacher will be
5. How you will assess the effectiveness of this area on language development

This assignment should be completed in a two- to three-page paper (in addition to the title page and reference page) that accompanies your visual floor plan.  Your project should be written in APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, and include at least two scholarly resources in addition to the course text.  Please remember to provide evidence from the textbook to support your design features.  You must also provide a reference citation in APA format at the bottom of your floor plan.

When you submit your assignments each week, they will be returned to you with specific feedback. This feedback should be used to revise the assignment for the Final Project.  Please make the necessary corrections and save for Week Five use in the Final Project.

Post an evaluation of the impact of organizational stress. Explain whether you think organizational stress can be positive, negative, or both.

Then, given your proposed nature of stress, explain how you as a leader of an organization would assess and manage organizational stress. Identify tools you would use to assess organizational stress. Explain how you would promote or minimize stress within an organization.

To support your position, be sure to include references to personal experience and two scholarly resources.

Must be at least 500 words and in APA.

Select One of the Following:

1. Midwest Hospital
2. The Audit Team I

For this writing assignment, you will select one of the factual case studies from the list above and you will write a 2-3-page conflict assessment that you will present as a case study.:

In your case study, please make sure to address the following :

1. For each case you have selected analyze the following:
   • The role of listening
   • Organization or impacts associated with listening
   • Identify any listening deficits
   • How could listening skills be improved in each situation
   • What hidden meanings exist and what impact does that have in the conversations
2. Assume that you have been hired as a trainer to facilitate communication in the organization and you will be presenting your findings to the employees in a training session:
   • Indicate what issue seems most important to the organization in terms of listening and understanding
   • What are three listening skills you would emphasize to the individuals and provide them a reason as to the importance
   • Provide an example of how improved listening and communication could assist with outcomes
   • Describe how listening causes interpersonal conflict
   • Give three reasons people don’t listen and provide at least one “solution” to each listening problem

We grade Discussion Boards and Individual Projects using three project criteria: Task Requirements, Demonstration and Application of Knowledge, and Academic Writing and Format. We score each project criterion using four performance values: Unsatisfactory, Developing, Effective, and Proficient. Please see the following tables for the details.

You have just been hired as the vice president of advertising and public relations. The president of the company has sent you the following message to give you an idea of what the company is about and what is expected from you in your new role:
Introduction
Welcome to the first of our strategic planning meetings. Before we get started, I would like to thank you for joining our bank in the capacity of Vice President, Advertising and Public Relations. Although we only have five branches located throughout our state and are considered a small bank by some, we not only wish to grow, but must grow or we will be swallowed by the big banks that are operating all around us. We have been too stagnant for too long and it is time to move forward. Senior management conducted several strategy sessions, and it was decided that we needed a new approach, which is why we created this new position and brought you on board to lead the charge.
We have never had a strong focus on public relations as a marketing tool, and we have also never really considered advertising as a requirement because we have relied mostly on referrals and word-of-mouth advertising in the past. This has served us well as a local bank, but based on increasing competition and the need for additional revenue, we need to grow beyond our existing customer base. This is where you come in.
I realize you have a very strong marketing background in advertising and public relations and have helped several organizations meet many of the same objectives that we are trying to achieve. By using someone from outside of the bank, we hope to bring in creative and fresh approaches to our strategic initiative. Ultimately, you are responsible for goal achievement. Let’s discuss the situation.
Background and Present Customer Base
As you are aware, we have been around for 30 years and have grown to 5 branches throughout the state. Our customers love us because we treat them like real people, focus on strong customer service, and give every customer the attention they require. We offer basic banking services from our 5 physical locations. Our services include savings accounts, checking accounts, CD’s, and loans.
We love our present customer base and do not want to lose them because they made us what we are today; however, our current local customers create very high expenses and offer little current or future revenue growth opportunities. They have very little money in their checking and savings accounts, so as a bank, we make very little on those assets. In addition, they carry a high cost per customer, which reduces our profit. They tend to be people from older generations who are not technologically savvy, require constant attention from our branch representatives through face-to-face transaction processing, insist on receiving paper bank statements, and refuse to use our ATMs. In addition, these customers are not the type that are taking out big loans and mortgages, which is really where we make a lot of money on the interest. Basically, we love our customers and want to keep them, but they cost us a lot of money and provide a very low return on investment (ROI). We need to penetrate a new market segment, and unfortunately, I do not know who that is.
Our current marketing strategy is to use our present customers to help us find new customers, but so far, we have not grown outside of our present, mostly unprofitable, market segment.
Next, as we have discussed, we currently offer no online banking or e-commerce services. That is rapidly changing because we are already working on the entire technical infrastructure. That will be ready to go soon, but we need to know how to get the word out regarding that initiative to the right new target market. In the marketing world, you call that reach and frequency.
Although this is a marketing-focused endeavor, you must create a strategic marketing plan before launching. This plan will set the bank’s marketing direction and bring the bank’s strategic goals down to an operational level where you can move forward based upon board approval of your plan and recommendations.
Reasons for Change
Based on the information above, we need to change the way that we do business to remain competitive; otherwise, the big banks will wipe us out. Specific reasons for the change include the following:
⦁ Competition
⦁ We have no competitive advantage
⦁ The competition is growing, even in our own local geography, and starting to erode our current customer base.
⦁ ROI is minimal based on the current customer base
⦁ Expenses are high based on current customer base
⦁ Limited growth potential in the current customer base
⦁ Public relations is a key channel offering many opportunities
⦁ Embrace advertising to expand beyond our customer base
⦁ Advertising and public relations will be required to announce and successfully achieve the goals for our new branding and direction
The Bank’s Long-term Strategic Goals
⦁ Increase overall profit and ROI
⦁ Create a competitive advantage through our e-commerce initiative
⦁ Identify and penetrate a profitable new market segment
⦁ Use effective advertising and public relations to drive all 3
General Direction Forward
Achieving our long-term strategic goals should be based on the following overall components:
⦁ We must find and establish our presence within a new profitable target segment. This encompasses launching new products and services, including the establishment of a very strong e-banking program that is based on the specific requirements of the new target market.
⦁ We must develop an integrated advertising program that is inclusive of a strong public relations component. The focus of both the advertising and public relations will be penetrating our new segment through effective advertising and public relations, eventually resulting in increased profit.
An Overview of Your Role Moving Forward
The steps that will need to be taken to complete this initiative are as follows:
⦁ Phase 1: Create advertising and public relations objectives that align to each of the 4 strategic goals. These represent the goals that you will achieve through the team’s efforts.
⦁ Phase 2: Identify a new target market, and create service and product offerings that are tailored to that segment by utilizing the marketing mix. You will also investigate appropriate communication channels to reach this market.
⦁ Phase 3: Create your branding strategy (position statement) for your new target market based on your situation analysis. This will start to integrate your goals, your situation analysis results, and your target market. This includes understanding, anticipating, and integrating plan components based on the potential impact of external influences (regulatory, economic, social, technology, etc.) that affect marketing.
⦁ Phase 4: Create a public relations piece that you will use that is based on the target market needs, and include specific measures to gauge if it is effective. This will include tracking from an ROI perspective. You will present a preliminary proposal to senior management in advance of the final presentation to the full board in Phase 5.
⦁ Phase 5: Give a final presentation to the bank president and the board with your overall recommendations. This will include how the strategy is integrated between the four components of the marketing mix

I need to answer the five  essay questions for the world religon class in daoism and confuciansm and i uploaded the reviews and the power point

the questions are :

1_Explain the relationships between North and South Korea and the past relationship between Japan and China. Describe the results of the Opium War.

2_Explain the origins of Daoism and Confucianism in the Warring States period in Chinese history. List at least two differences between Neo-Confucianism and Confucianism.

3_Define action without assertion in Daoism. List the levels of the Daoist universe.

4_Describe Master K’ung’s (Confucius’) life and why he probably emphasized filial piety. List the five virtues.

5) Explain the saying of the Daodejing, which says the Dao cannot be understood with knowledge or words, that those who know about the Dao do not speak, and those who speak about it, don’t know it.